Stafford’s Record Deal

So as I sit sipping a glass of Bulleit Bourbon trying to relax after a long day of work, I log onto Yahoo Sports and see that Matthew Stafford will indeed be the number one overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft, and could make $78 million over the next 6 years, with $41.7 guaranteed.  [...]

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Matt Cassel heading to Motown

Today is the first day in which teams can franchise players. Each team has the ability, each year, to use only one franchise tag. The salary the team will be paying is based on the top 5 salaries of the previous year.
This year the quarterback franchise number is $14,651,000.
I can tell you what will happen [...]

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Turkey Day Football Breakdown

Where can you find the two biggest point spreads of Week 13? Why Turkey Day of course! Yes, the nationally televised (well, 2 of the 3) games on Thanksgiving are home to the two biggest mismatches of the week. What a fantastic slate of games the NFL has lined up for us. A 12:30 and [...]

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Vegas: odds for the Lions to go winless are 2/1

I think the odds might be worse for them. It’s the NFL and any team can win on any given day but it’s tough to see this team winning a game when you look at their remaining schedule. Their first half schedule was a cake walk compared to the second. A scary thought for Detroit [...]

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Lions have better chance of going winless than Titans undefeated

VegasWatch has a article that comes to the conclusion that the Lions have a better chance of not winning a single game than the Titans do of going undefeated.

Taking a look at their schedule it is easy to see that the worst is in fact not behind Detroit but still in front of them. To [...]

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